Police arrest 2 in Stockton homicide

Tuesday

Feb 18, 2014 at 8:57 AMFeb 18, 2014 at 8:59 AM

STOCKTON – Police announced Monday night that detectives have arrested two 19-year-old men in connection with the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man in the 4800 block of Kentfield Road earlier in the day.

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STOCKTON – Police announced Monday night that detectives have arrested two 19-year-old men in connection with the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man in the 4800 block of Kentfield Road earlier in the day.

Bobby Sherell Miller and Kyren Nicodemus Nicholson were booked into San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp on Monday evening and are being held without bail, charged with suspicion of murder. Their first court date is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Superior Court in downtown Stockton.

Authorities have not yet released the name of the victim. However, close friends of the victim identified him as Rashan “Spud” Matthews of Stockton, a San Joaquin Delta College student.

He was walking to his car to go pick up his wife from work around 10:30 a.m. Monday when he was gunned down, his friends said. He died later in an area hospital, according to police.

A second shooting took place nearby just before 2 p.m. Police have not provided details in that case, but they are investigating the possibility that the two incidents are related.